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100 years – 100 artefacts

08.04.2022
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The plate with inventory no. 306 was inscribed in the patrimony of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography in 1923. The artefacts originates from Cerbăl village, Hunedoara county and it probably entered the museum patrimony following a research campaign initiated by professor Romulus Vuia, the museum founder. The ceramic plates were too often used in the peasant households from the first half of
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100 years – 100 artefacts

01.04.2022
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In the traditional village, agriculture played a central role in the life of the community, being one of the main occupations which developed in connection with the features and geographical position of the agricultural lands.   The negative on glass made by Romulus Vuia, in the period 1910-1923, in Hunedoara county, captures ploughlands in terraces, which represent a spectacular element of
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100 years – 100 artefacts

01.04.2022
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An emblematic and indispensable tool in the practice of traditional agriculture, the plough appears in the Mediterranean world, dating back from the Roman ploughing and later spreading to the rest of Europe. In the Romanian countries, it began to be used in the first centuries of early feudalism (10th - 11th centuries).   Given the importance of agriculture in most Transylvanian rural areas and
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100 years – 100 artefacts

25.03.2022
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The negative on glass was made by Romulus Vuia, 1910-1923, at the Văcăria sheepfold and shows a woman, standing on a wooden chair, pressing ewe-cheese, to squeeze out the buttermilk. The milk press is a tall installation, consisting of two round wooden pillars, fixed in the ground, each with an elongated vertical notch at the upper part. The pillars are joined by two horizontal wooden ledgers,
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100 years – 100 artefacts

25.03.2022
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The shepherd’s wooden notch   As an artifact of the week, we propose a piece from the sheepfold’s inventory, namely the notch (“răbuș”, “răvaș”) – a stick carved on several sides on which were notched the quantities of milk obtained by each owner to “measure up” the milk, in order to know the due milk when it’s time for cheese. Milk was measured up by units of measurement that had different
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100 years – 100 artefacts

18.03.2022
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The negative on glass was made by Romulus Vuia, in the period 1910-1923, in the Părăginosu area, from the Parâng massif and presents, in the foreground, a mountain sheepfold, made up of a wooden construction - probably the sheepfold itself, where the shepherds lived, with a four-pitched roof, covered in shingles; the sheepfold, consisting of thin tree trunks and wooden sheepfold’s fenced place,
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100 years – 100 artefacts

25.02.2022
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The negative on glass was made by Romulus Vuia in 1913, in Clopotiva, Râu de Mori, Hunedoara county, Hațeg Country.  In the foreground, there is a woman dressed up in a folk costume specific to the area, carrying a child on her back, on a village street, in front of a wicker fence covered in straw, and in the background, two buildings can be distinguished. The woman’s folk costume is one of the
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100 years – 100 artefacts

25.02.2022
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 “Ceapsa”, a component piece of the head covering, is a white bonnet made of seam-decorated cloth, worn by married women. “Ceapsa” (“ceapța”) in the image has a trapezoidal shape and it’s worn on the back of the head, over the “conci” that fixes the twisted strands of hair, specific to preparing the head “with horns” from Hațeg Country. The head covering and hair combing in this area is one of
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100 years - 100 de artefacts

23.02.2022
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The negative on glass was made by professor Romulus Vuia in 1923, in Veredin, Luncavița, Caraș-Severin county, Mountain Banat.   In the foreground, there is a woman, dressed up in ordinary work clothes: dark scarf; home-woven cloth shirt with wide sleeves, wrinkled over the elbow and finished with large wrinkled welts which have a geometrical decoration at the bottom; white laps, made from home-
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100 years - 100 de artefacts

15.02.2022
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The negative on glass was made by professor Romulus Vuia in 1923, in Cârnești, Totești, Hunedoara county, Hațeg Country. In the image foreground, there are two boys, of different ages, who were walking on stilts, in winter time, on the village alley. To the right of the image, there is a household fence, and to the left a row of trees. The stilts are two wooden poles, provided with a support that
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